


Although these offerings take steps to make the dungeon-hack trappings more accessible than last month's Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, they still feel monotonous and are too similar to 2006's Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games to warrant much attention.Įxplorers of Darkness and Explorers of Time break the Mystery Dungeon mold by providing you with a hometown and a central guild to which you can return. With Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Time, the Nintendo DS is getting two versions of its second Mystery Dungeon entry this year. The games offer random dungeons, plenty of items to collect (though rarely enough space to carry them), clumsy turn-based combat, and a degree of challenge that often forces you to retry the same levels over and over again before you're successful. If it begins in "NTR", it isn't.The Mystery Dungeon series from Chunsoft has been catering to fans of two-dimensional role-playing games for years. If it begins in "TWL", it's DSi-enhanced. There is an easy way to tell if a game is DSi-enhanced or not: look at the letters on the bottom of the label on the cartridge. I'm pretty sure that Mystery Dungeon is not an enhanced DSi game. The games can be played on any model of DS and 3DS, however they contain a region lock on DSi and 3DS models. I thought that maybe that game itself could be region-locked, but the only region-locked Pokemon game should be Pokemon B2W2, according to Serebii:

However, software specific to the Nintendo DSi are region-locked, as Wikipedia states. Because that region-locking isn't encoded into the DS software, you can play software from all regions on your 3DS. While all 3DS software is region-locked, Nintendo DS software is not. I should be able to play it, but I can't, and I don't know why.Īccording to this question " Can I play DS games from any region on 3DS?": I have an Italian 3DS and I've bought a second-hand English Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness.
